She wondered whether it would be appropriate to go on publishing frivolous, pleasure-giving books in wartime, but was assured by her publishers, Hodder and Stoughton
, that it was, and that they would need the...
Publishing
Annie S. Swan
Sir William Robertson Nicoll
, friend of ASS
and power behind the The British Weekly: A Journal of Social and Christian Progress (which was published at London by Hodder and Stoughton
), proposed to her...
Publishing
Emmuska Baroness Orczy
The local post office refused to take it for delivery on its way to England, but (the USA being still a non-belligerent), she was able to send it to Washington through the good offices of...
Publishing
Gwen Moffat
GM
changed her publisher from Hodder and Stoughton
to Gollancz
for Survival Count, subtitled a personal journey towards conservation.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Four years after her first novel, RMA
issued the first of her nearly 140 titles published in a highly successful working relationship with Hodder and Stoughton
, Richard Chatterton, V.C..
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Publishing
Ruby M. Ayres
In a year in which RMA
published no fewer than twelve novel titles in London through Hodder and Stoughton
, she also published in New York, through W. J. Watt
, The Uphill Road.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Publishing
Edith Mary Moore
EMM
made yet another change of publisher when she issued her extraordinary novel Teddy R. N. D. through Hodder and Stoughton
, priced at five shillings.
The Uphill Road does not seem to have appeared in England. One might suppose that Ayres chose this manner of publication because of her almost incredible productivity in this year. She continued to issue occasional...
Publishing
Rosemary Sutcliff
RS
chose the England of King Arthur
for an adult novel entitled Sword at Sunset, which her new publishers, Hodder and Stoughton
, advertised as her greatest novel.
It was in this year that GH
signed contracts with Heinemann
for three historical romances and with Hodder and Stoughton
for four detective stories.
qtd. in
Haas, Lidija. “Wholly Allergic”. London Review of Books, Vol.
34
, No. 16, 30 Aug. 2012, pp. 29-30.
29
This particular novel appeared in the United States as Merely Murder.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
191
Publishing
Edith Mary Moore
For the first time in her career, EMM
used the same publisher again after several years: her novel The Blind Marksman (apparently her last) was issued by Hodder and Stoughton
at seven shillings and sixpence...
Publishing
Rosemary Sutcliff
RS
also published five adult historical novels, two of them during this decade: Lady in Waiting, 1956, and The Rider of the White Horse, 1959. For these she chose a different publisher, Hodder and Stoughton